Ocasio-Cortez Blasted on Giant NYC Billboard for Blowing New York Amazon Deal

A giant billboard was erected in bust Times Square, blaming Ocasio-Cortez for the New York-Amazon deal falling through

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been publically blasted for blowing the deal between New York and Amazon after a giant billboard has been put up in Times Square, NYC, blaming the Democratic congresswoman for costing the city over 25,000 jobs.

The billboard was erected in Ocasio-Cortez's home city of New York after she was widely criticized for her anti-Amazon rhetoric that likely played a role in the retail giant withdrawing plans to build a new headquarters in the city.

The ad space was bought by Job Creators Network, a nonpartisan organization founded by entrepreneurs like Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus.

The group purchased the billboard in the prominent position in NYC, slamming socialist Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for killing tens of thousands of jobs for New Yorkers at the new HQ2 campus that would have generated billions of dollars in economic activity.

The high-visibility blast will be up for all to see until next Wednesday.

“The Amazon pullout is a perfect example of what we’ve been saying: socialism takes and capitalism creates,” Alfredo Ortiz, JCN president and CEO said in a statement.

“The economic consequences of the HQ2 termination gives America a small taste of the harm that is to come if Ocasio-Cortez’s anti-business canon comes to fruition and is made federal policy.”

The billboard blames Ocasio-Cortez for costing New Yorkers 25,000 new jobs

According to Fox News, it comes after Ocasio-Cortez vigorously defended her role in sinking Amazon’s move to New York City on Tuesday in the face of bipartisan criticism, claiming the deal would have been “one of the biggest giveaways in state history” and would have priced people out of the local community.

“Frankly, the knee-jerk reaction assuming that I ‘don’t understand’ how tax giveaways to corps work is disappointing,” she tweeted.

Amazon had cited the opposition of “a number of state and local politicians” in its decision to abandon the plans.

Ocasio-Cortez and others at the local level had pointed to incentives such as a $2.5 billion in tax breaks as a reason for their opposition.

“If we were willing to give away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves, if we wanted to. We could hire out more teachers. We can fix our subways. We can put a lot of people to work for thatmoney if we wanted to,” Ocasio-Cortez said last week.

Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed back on that claim on Sunday.

Even as he slammed Amazon for its decision, the mayor said critics wrongly suggested that tax breaks represented money that could be spent on other things.

He said it wasn’t “money you had over here. And it was going over there.”